12/04/17
CMI
"White Bear" Analysis
“Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly
ever.” This quote by Evgeny Morozov could not better encompass the modern mind.
We continue to ever advance technology as a means to ease our struggles in an
attempt to “return” to our more basic roots. This is exactly what we have
achieved, but not without handing control of our needs to these technologies.
In “White Bear” we truly see how we have attached our basic
needs with technology. A sense of safety is not hard to achieve when you are
hiding behind a screen; belonging, achieved by acting as one with a group; a
sense of accomplishment obtained by recreating and forcing another through the
same trials that she sent someone else through; and the final feeling of
self-realization as they see her come to “justice” by having stripped Victoria
of her needs while gaining their sense of them, all through the feigned control
of electronics.
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